[Wikipedia-l] Sanger's memoirs

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Wed Apr 20 01:53:25 UTC 2005


Lars Aronsson wrote:
> He started it as a test, and it snowballed out of control. Nobody 
> could predict its popularity.  Larry to me seems like a hesitant 
> Martin Luther who says "wait, I didn't want to start a new church, 
> only reform the old one!"  But nobody wants to wait.

The original idea for a wiki for Wikipedia was not proposed by Larry,
but by Jeremy Rosenfeld.

--Jimbo



More information about the Wikipedia-l mailing list